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various windows boot options with lilo...possible?

Hi everybody!

I´m new at this forum... ;) I´m running with a computer with various operative systems (in different partitions, of course); one is SUSE Linux 8.0 and the other are Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. I have configured Lilo for the Master Boot Record, but i can´t choose there what windows partition i want to load. I have to choose "windows" option and then choose using NTLOADER of Windows which "windows" i want, (2000, XP or 98)... and my question is: ¿Is there a way to choose directly from lilo which "windows" you want? ¿And if so, how? (because if i modify lilo.conf to run directly from a windows partition, it prompts a message of error...)

Thanks and sorry if i didn´t express correctly!!

I thought that windows required their loader in the MBR, but I'm not sure...

You can add multiple image= and other= lines, to add multiple kernels and operating systems to your lilo menu.

Here is my lilo.conf, hope it helps:

Code:

# Support for large hard disks

lba32



# Where to install.

boot    = /dev/hda



# Default linux parameters.

root    = /dev/hda3

default = Linux_22-0310



# Settomgs

vga    = 791

timeout = 60

delay  = 20

prompt

#single-key

append  = "mem=nopentium hdc=ide-scsi pci=noacpi"



# Beatify

#message = /boot/lilo/boot_message.txt

bitmap=/boot/lilo/gnulinux-16.rle.bmp

bmp-colors=14,,0,9,,0

bmp-table=220p,120p,1,15,17

bmp-timer=210p,390p,1,15,15



# Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table:

change-rules

  reset



## Stable Slackware kernel



image    = /boot/kernels/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.21

  label  = Linux_21-ide

  read-only





## New current kernel



image    = /boot/kernels/linux-2.4.22-0310

  label  = Linux_22-0310

  initrd = /boot/lilo/initrd-splash

  read-only

  # Let's get this one to rumble :-)





## Windows XP boot



other    = /dev/hda1

  label  = Windows-XP

  password = .... ;-)

thanks, but.... i have tried it and still doesn´t work with various windows partitions, because the standard boot loader of windows is only in one of them. So, my problem is that i have to run this loader which administer my windows partitions... and i would like than lilo took care of it, so i wouldn´t have to choose first in lilo the "windows" option, and then in ntloader which "windows" i like....

but, yes windows don´t require its boot loader in the MBR! ;)

use vcomm's system commander instead of lilo, it will give you the option to go into all OS's without any second prompts.

ART